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We find ourselves in a long hall filled with ghosts. They all say 'May Arcadius be with you.' except for one guy that advertises Smirnoff Ice.



And when you talk to the guy at the end of the hall...


They disappear.


This fairy still can't tell us about the boss.

Score! Then we go back out and upstairs.


The stairs come out from under this table.


There's only three enemy types in this half of the dungeon. Manic Moppets just cast a single or AOE fire attack, while Squid Billys buff an enemys evasion by a lot pretty often, or can inflict silence or paralyze. So they're really god damn annoying.


In a side room we find History #1. Pay attention, there's going to be a test on this.


Here's the third enemy type. Just a weakass bat.


This chest in the confessional is a cute little trick. You'll come in one door, see it on the other side of the counter(?) and go out and then in the other door, and it'll have moved to the other side. The trick is to go down and around the counter.


Leaving the churchs main hall leads to... some kind of entry hall that the upper levels look down over?


Can't open the front door from this side.


And this door has a barrier...


If you've a good eye, you'd notice the tile between two other pairs of pillars are darker than the other tiles, but this one isn't. There's a click when you step on it and we can now go through the barrier door.


You can see a bat flying north here, it's headed to a doorway. When it goes through, the room...


... goes dark... If you step off the walkway you have to start the room over. The first room you can generally make across as the bats going through the door, but the next two rooms are longer and more complex and you have to do the last parts by memory.


Beat your dirty little tricks, bat!





We turn on the water somewhere.

I go back to the entry and go downstairs there.




Hmm...


AH FUCK!

Anyway, these bats aren't encounters. They just flatout deal damage to the whole party and make you stop for a second while you want to press three more pressure plates in 15 seconds. That's actually plenty of time even if you get bitten a couple times.


Voila!


This is the only thing down here in the basement, so let's get back to things we actually have to do. There's one more space off the entry hall...

This is History #2.


I wind up fighting all the bats on purpose.


Then in the next room I have to light all the torches. This is one of those puzzles where using one tocrh reverses the state of the adjacent torches. To compensate for how dead easy it is, the puzzle resets twice to make you do it thrice.


There's also a slightly secret passage headed to a miracle drop in the previous room.





Still two more faucets to turn on.


This is an armour breaking type attack. Shroud also learns 'Cold Snap' which cures all status effects. Nice spell to get this early on.

And that's all the areas off the entry hall done. We head back into the church proper and then go upstairs.


The middle door on the second floor leads to...

... the room where the pipes we've been opening are, and also a fairy that can tell us about the boss for once.


There's a door at the other end of this walkway with a barrier on it, which is our ultimate goal.

Back out on the second floor, the other two doors just lead to the third floor.


History #3.





Bats fly over these torches, putting them out if you light them.


The bats shoot out of those two pipes there and there's only one crate big enough to block them initially. But if you push one of the crates on the depressed pressure plate... and then the other one near it...




Bats keep shooting out of the pipes and smack into the crates with a thud sound, presumably exploding into a thousand pieces, repeatedly. It both looks and sounds goofy.


One last tap to leave on.





The bats here work like the other timed section and try to keep you from getting to the door at the other end before it closes.

Stoic's shouting wakes the bats.


They begin flying in formation around the walkway.


And then Andau teleports in.

Andau opens the fight, before we even take a turn, by hitting both of us with some kind of spell. It does 30ish damage.


Anyway, since this is the first real boss fight it's easy. Andau doesn't do much beyond direct damage. I just have Stoic boost his attack, and then armor break and both our guys go crazy on him, with Shroud healing now and then.
After you pound on him for a bunch of turns...





You want to annihilate some of the bats quickly, because six all up can do some nasty damage.



Woo


Why did the bats catch on fire

Andau charges Cade!


And Cade blows him away (literally) at the last second.


We hear a splashing sound.